Position in chronology
CUSAS 03, 1021
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322530.
Transliteration
1(disz) udu sa2-du11 inanna-[zabala4] 1(disz) udu sa2-du11 [szara2 umma] ki# i3-li2-bi#-[la-ni-ta ba-zi] iti sze-sag11#-[ku5] mu []szu-suen# [lugal] uri5-[ma-ke4 ...] szu-kab2-ta a-zu dumu na-ra-am-i3-li2 iszkur-illat dub-sar dumu a-bi2-a ARAD2-zu
Scholarly note
Catalogue entry from CDLI (Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)) — CUSAS 03, 1021. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Šu-Suen y1 — Šu-Suen became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.
Attribution
Image: CUNES 48-04-016 (Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA) — from Garšana (mod. uncertain) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P322530). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P322530..
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